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3 Men and a Baby
3 Men and a Baby

6.2

3 Men and a Baby

PG·1987·102m

Summary

Three bachelors find themselves forced to take care of a baby left by one of the guy's girlfriends.

Crew

Director

Leonard Nimoy

Original Story

Coline Serreau

Screenplay

James Orr

Screenplay

Jim Cruickshank

Reviews

Geronimo1967

Geronimo1967

December 31, 2023

6

"Jack" (Ted Danson), "Michael" (Steve Guttenburg) and "Peter" (Tom Selleck) live the lives of three reasonably well-off bachelors until they open the door one morning to find a little bundle of joy complete with a note declaring that "Jack" is the father and that the young girl is all their's! Panic sets in but being men of the world, they quickly adapt (!?!) to parenting with all the right nappies, milk bottles - indeed, you name it and they get it wrong! To add to their woes, another knock at their door reveals that a couple of hoodlums are after another sort of powdery mixture and are convinced that these three have it. What now ensues plays just a bit too much to stereotype for me. The baby does way too much irritating screaming - authentic, I know, but not after ten minutes in a cinema! I can't usually tell Danson and Selleck apart at the best of times and Guttenburg seems to add little to the rather far-fetched dynamic that is cluttered rather than augmented by the gangster thread, then a court hearing, then some antics on a construction site. The original concept is the best thing about it but the execution is over-scripted and just too contrived to stay entertaining beyond the first twenty minutes.

Media

Status:

Released

Original Language:

English

Budget:

$11,000,000.00

Revenue:

$242,780,960.00

Keywords

new york city
baby
bachelor
roommates
adoption
parenthood
fatherhood
abandoned baby